There’s a difference between “private property” and “personal property”. Arguably any personal property is private property but not all private property is personal property. And it’s that private property which doesn’t need to exist.

Well, I’m more talking about human in general. Even the more spartan settlements we see usually have a replicator and something to power it with. Sometimes Enterprise gives them as “bare necessities” almost, imo. To modern day humans, that is. Well and the one’s who were supposed to be modern day humans on some planet they had been kidnapped to. I thought it might be Voyager but now I’m not sure.

I imagine holodecks would run similarly to how library computers used to; they had a book and you could reserve an hour. On an empty day, you could do more. They’d allow you to use it as much as you want given there was no-one else queuing. Then it’d be shared equally. And it might depend on your relationship with the librarian, on just how much you annoy them.

I think replicators are fairly standard, depending on which trek ofc.

Holodecks and highly trained doctors, no.

I take your point, it’s like being a billionaire today vs being a regular everyday person. So we’d be comparing their healthcare, tech and gizmos to an everyday person.

Everyday person still has like semidecent healthcare compared to a few hundred years ago and you could quite easily buy pretty good gear yourself for certain basic medical things. Basic wound care, emergency medicine, get an ultrasound and learn to read it to scan your body in a rudimentary fashion if you’d like. Get yourself some EEG. You can easily get either (but prolly rather low maybe low-mid tier) for around 100 western money units. You train yourself rudimentary but still quite advanced medicine that doctors 80 years would’ve have had no idea of. Medications you’d have a trouble getting obviously, but aside from prescription meds…

So assuming a certain bottom level of technology, but also technological availability, replicators are pretty common, you can prolly quite easily get one for yourself and then you’re pretty much off to the races. Surely there’s things it can’t build but yeah.

I’d much rather be some somewhat poor shmuck in the ST universe than a moisture farmer on Tatooine.

Also, lower decks? Fucking aces count me in. Love that shit. And I do mean both the show but also the ranks if I were on the Enterprise. I’d happily be a mid-tier NCO instead of a bridge officer. Seems more heroic yeah sure, but doing that 247 would be kinda tiring to be honest. Mid-tier NCO’s have so much more agency. And still get to guest star sometimes. Although the rate of change of the redshirts under me would probably make me have to do a lot of interviews… hmmm…

I mean that’s just another pro: you can jump universes and dimensions and even travel in time.

Some of that arguably exists in Star Wars, but…

That’s a shower thought if any.

Whenever someone speaks about polari, I can’t help but hear something like that in one of their accents. I don’t know which is Julian and which Sandy, I haven’t actually heard complete episodes.

I think one of these British comedy radio channels I listen to might have played some.

Listen to ROK - British Comedy 1 from London live on Radio Garden: https://radio.garden/listen/rok-classic-radio-british-comedy/sojNBZOk

“A Clockwork Orange”, the novel, was published in 1962.

Polari: the language of gay oppression

Fifty years on from the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Professor Paul Baker and comedian Barry Cryer OBE explain the history of Polari, the language of gay men who were, mostly, working in the entertainment industry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p059qm4b

No, but neither could the person who figured it out in his day and age. He compared several of the pages layouts to figure out the book, then ordered a physical copy (there’s two different ones they use in the show, he got copies of both). The title is pretty prominently displayed as well there, in case you missed it.

“The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare”

I don’t want to link to Amazon, but it’s easy enough to find. It would make sense of Picard to have it, since he’s into Shakespeare, but the reason he is into Shakespeare is because Patrick Stewart is. And it’d make sense that when they want a prop book, they’ll use one with him in it, which he probably may have provided himself. I mean, I don’t think he did, but I would not be surprised. Not like he’s egotistic in any way, just whimsical.

So if someone actually watched the shower intensely back in the 90’s and went into their library to see if such a book would be available, they maybe have found it, and been pleasantly surprised to see Patrick Stewart in there. The book was like 20 odd years old at that point. (Or at least the photo of PS is, the book must obviously be at least a bit younger)

It’s not much different than modern Marvel movies talking about movies which feature same actors as in the movie. Hardly a big thing, sometimes done on purpose (Deadpool absolutely bashing on Green Lantern etc) and sometimes just because they want to mention a thing and it just happens to be a franchise with some of the same actors as Marvel is pretty big and has all the actors.

Nobody would be able to make it out when the show was filmed and released.

You sure about that?

I can make that out fro 1.5m away, on a screen a quarter of the CRT I’d have been watching from a similar distance.

but it wasn’t intended for the audience.

The book is literally highlighted and on display?

Yea I’m seconding this being within normal operating parameters for a Trekkie.

I started back in like 2005 when I got my first kit with an 18-55 lens. Dad had some suitable longer older analog’s I had as well on top. Those are the ones I still have. I’ve bought a few lenses and cameras here and there but I mostly ran out inspiration ten years ago.

Don’t have a car, don’t have a functioning bike, just don’t even feel like going out. But I do miss it.

I thought it must be long af. Not a long “AF” (as in the nikkor AF’s) but long as fuck. Very nice.

I only got a cheap 300mm. Well I do have my dad’s old lenses as well and there’s double-rings and whatnot but that’s… more niche stuff. Not really for fast photography of moving targets, lol.

Sorry for doubting you.

Oh. Well they look like a sort of a cross between our methhead jackrabbits and the cute little fluffy ones. Thanks for the images. That’s a really good photo. What lens did you use?

I won’t believe that before you upload other angles where more can be seen or the raw file for this.

This seems like an AI’s idea of a mix between a rabbit and a hare.

Just the real world actually

No if you know they’re gonna have to check, then you’ve worked for your cousin Randy at his placeofbusiness doing menialchore related to the industry.

You can confirm this by calling Mr Randolphius McGillecuddy, Esq.

What gap?

I’ve not been unemployed, I’ve been under a strict NDA for a very private employer. No, I’m not allowed their share their contact information. Sorry.